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Leadership: skills and capacity

65. An early priority for the new NHS Leadership Centre should be to offer guidelines as to leadership styles and practices which are acceptable and to be encouraged within the NHS, and those which are not.
66. Steps should be taken to identify and train those within the NHS who have the potential to exercise leadership. There needs be a sustained investment in developing leadership skills at all levels in the NHS.
67. The NHS's investment in developing and funding programmes in leadership skills should be focused on supporting joint education and multi-professional training, open to nurses, doctors, managers and other healthcare professionals.
68. The NHS Leadership Centre should be involved in all stages of the education, training and continuing development of all healthcare professionals.